LWN.net
MongoDB is "a scalable, high-performance, open source, dynamic-schema, document-oriented database." The 1.4 release has been announced; it features a number of performance improvements, better replication support, geospatial search support, a number of…
26 March 2010TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Odds and ends A friend wrote to ask: Is there a way to turn off Expose without opening System Preferences, clicking on each drop-down menu and selecting the -- option? Because sometimes I just don't need it. Or it confuses my Mother. Or my…
26 March 2010Macworld
The latest beta of Messenger for Mac lets you engage in audio-video conferences with your friends on Windows.
24 March 2010Slashdot
gnujoshua writes "The Wikimedia Tech Blog has a post explaining why many users were unable to reach Wikimedia sites due to DNS resolution failure. The article states, 'Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned…
24 March 2010Slashdot
aws910 writes "Today, I fired up Google Earth to find that the 'points of interest' category had been removed, and a single checkbox is in its place. Certain layers are now entirely inaccessible. Google triggered a user revolt, but admitted fault, and…
24 March 2010MySQL Performance Blog
It is time to announce the next version of backup software from Percona – XtraBackup 1.1. The list of changes in version 1.1 includes: Changelog: * XtraBackup is built on a base of MySQL 5.1.44 with InnoDB plugin 1.0.6 * tar4ibd is default method for…
24 March 2010MacOSXHints.com
The grep -ri command (recursively search for matches, ignoring case) in Terminal is incredibly useful, but incredibly slow. In OS X, we can leverage mdfind to quickly find the files containing our search string, then use grep to find the strings within…
23 March 2010TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Steve Jobs I love this -- papercraft artist Jay Hauf has constructed a little papercraft Steve Jobs cutout. Over on his Flickr account, he's posted a picture that you can print out, cut out, and then fold up into the form of our favorite CEO.…
23 March 2010TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Retail Philip DeWitt at Apple 2.0 is reporting that Apple's Fifth Avenue retail store is now New York City's fifth most-photographed location. The ranking is according to a year-old analysis of 35 million Flickr images by Cornell University…
23 March 2010MySQL Performance Blog
As soon as we get couple FusionIO cards, there is question how to join them in single space for database. FusionIO does not provide any mirroring/stripping solutions and totally relies on OS tools there. So for Linux we have software RAID and LVM, I tried…
23 March 2010